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Hi Terry and all, Re: > > Looking at the diagram, I'm interested in your explanation of the origins and > mechanisms of 'desire to know' in your diagram? What is it? How is it > operationalised? What are its foundations? Where does it come from? Etc. I've tried to answer this at least speculatively in the essay I posted last month, which probably dropped into the middle of everyone's vacation. It's called "An Essay on Meaning in Design Thinking" and is posted at: http://uoregon.academia.edu/JerryDiethelm/Papers/1781126/An_Essay_on_Meaning _in_Design_Thinking And on my web site at: http://pages.uoregon.edu/diethelm/EssayOnMeaninginDesignThinking.pdf The short answer is that I think it has to do with the early advantage of being able to draw on accumulated knowledge in survival situations. The cultural making path has its origins in actions for survival and then evolves to emphasize life support and life enhancement actions, policies and products as external threats to culture making diminish. > > What are the symmetric opposites of the factors at v1, v2, and v3? You have > 'desire to know' as a driver (with no output on the diagram) and outputs at v2 > and v3 without any indicative driver. The diagram appears incomplete? I view all the Vs in process terms as valuing. As needing, wanting, desiring...things. The dots along the horizontal line are all cultural products (things), but there is an intended distinction between the knowledge-making path and the culture making path. I conceive it as the mind organizing itself toward separate ends that intertwine and necessarily co-exist. > > The factor 'Desire to know' is of a different ontological category to all > other items on your diagram - which should rings some bells concerning the > coherence and validity of the representation the diagram attempts. > > Wondering what a more complete diagram would look like? Thanks for helping me continue to think about this. Best, Jerry > > > Here©ös a diagram of the way I conceive of knowledge, research and practice, > using the basic, applied and clinical model for research that Ken Friedman > describes. *** Since the list rejects pdfs, the diagram described > below will be found at : *** > > http://pages.uoregon.edu/diethelm/Research%20&%20Practice%20Diagram.pdf